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The Daily Dispatch: June 8, 1861., [Electronic resource], England must have cotton. (search)
the proclamation and the discussions in Parliament by every possible species of inference, and if nothing else will suffice, find a pretext to declare war against the United States, to force them to abandon their present ground, and acknowledge the independence of the South. Cotton must be had at all hazards. And in the desire to sustain the South, and to break the Union, this Government will be seconded by France, who burns to obtain some foothold and interest in North America and the West Indies. Schemes are now on foot to get financial aid to the South, though with very slim prospects of success. I believe this Government, if there were any possible chance of doing it, would to-day advance ten millions to the Southern Confederacy, if by so doing they could see their way clear to either a separation of the Union, a close of the war, or a full supply of cotton for the next two years. Now, you may mark my words, and you will find them true, just as certain as the sun con